Student Orientation

We offer the same services to online students as we offer to on-campus students. These services include:

• Multidisciplinary and subject specific article databases, such as Academic Search Premier, CINAHL, ScienceDirect and ERIC.
• Online access to full-text articles in thousands of online journals, accessible through our databases and ILL.
• Youtube Videos and Tutorialson a variety of topics.
• Interlibrary Loan Services (ILLiad) to help you get books and articles not available through Midway's Little Memorial Library.
• Research Assistancevia email, phone, or by appointment.
• Research Guides to connect you to the best resources for your area of study.

Our librarians and instructional technologists are happy to help with research projects, but we cannot do your research for you. Additionally, we highly recommend seeking help with enough time for Interlibrary Loans to be delivered.

ILLiad is our interlibrary loan (ILL) and document delivery system, You will use it to request books and articles not available through Little Memorial Library's resources. It can take several days or week to receive physical books through ILL, but electronic books and articles can be received much more quickly.

Requests are placed electronically to participating libraries that possess the item sought. The following procedures apply :

• The borrower must complete an Interlibrary Loan Request Form, available at the reference desk , on the library's web site, or from the electronic database itself.
• Borrowers must allow a minimum of one week for receipt of materials.
• Generally, the borrower will incur no costs for the interlibrary loan. Occasionally, the lending library will charge for the items. In this case, the circulation supervisor will inform the borrower beforehand.
• Books are to be returned by the due date as specified by the lending library. Lost items will be assessed the replacement cost as well as a $25.00 processing fee.
• Within any calendar year, the library may not request more than 5 copies of material from any one work that was published within the previous five years.

If you are not on campus you will need your Midway email and password to login to the EZProxy system. The EZProxy system allows off-campus access to information resources that are restricted to Midway students, staff, and faculty. These information resources are restricted because they are pay-for-access.

If you use these resources from an on-campus Midway University computer connected via to the Midway Internet your computer is identified as being on the Midway network and you can access the resources seamlessly. EZProxy allows your off-campus computer to be identified as part of the Midway network.

When searching through library databases you will automatically be prompted to enter your Midway credentials via EZProxy. If you are not, please contact Little Memorial Library or The CENTER@Midway for assistance.